4H members attending Frontier Days yesterday celebrated 100 years of 4H in Saskatchewan.

Nora Schock is a leader of the Maple Creek Multiple 4H Club and a new member of the Provincial 4H Board.

She says 4H helps to build our youth.

"Public speaking is a gold star, they're made to do it and yes they grumble about it, but it pays off in the end," Schock said. "You're always going to have to talk in front of somebody, eventually in your life. Either at church or politics, learning how to do the parliamentary procedure or how to run a meeting, or just at your local Elk's club or the R.M. if you join."    

She adds they also learn record keeping which helps later in life with keeping track of books for accounting and taxes.

Schock says 4H has changed over the years.

"There is nothing you can't do in 4H nowadays," she said. "When I grew up it was beef, sewing, horse and there might have been mechanics, and now there is nothing you can't do. With technology now, they do the books with technology now or research with technology. There are technology projects and again we can Skype or chat with someone somewhere across the world and learn how they do it in their 4H type programs."      

She says 4H has helped to shape the lives of a number of young people over the years.